✈️ Airport pickups: A hassle, or a sweet gesture?

It’s Tuesday, November 21 — people are talking about the drama with Sam Altman & OpenAI, the debate over the airport pickup, and more.

As always, we’ve summarized and organized the different shades of perspective, so you can see the big picture quickly. Here at Shades we believe that seeing multiple points of view is the best way to stay informed.

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🖱️ A dramatic weekend for Sam Altman & OpenAI

OpenAI (the makers of ChatGPT) suddenly fired their CEO, Sam Altman. Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest investor, then scooped him up. What happened?

🖱️ The Verge’s recap: The OpenAI Board of Directors fired CEO Sam Altman, but then tried to bring him back after an internal revolt. Altman refused and instead joined Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest investor!

🖱️ CNN said OpenAI royally screwed this up. The (nonprofit) board had valid ethical concerns about the speed and recklessness of AI development under Altman, but suddenly firing him was a dumb move.

🖱️ Yahoo Finance thinks this debacle exposes a deep rift in the AI community — one side is deeply fearful of unchecked AI, while the other is excited and wants to give developers free rein.

🖱️ Reuters says it’s unclear if it was the right call, but this is clearly a win for the AI doomer crowd. OpenAI’s new CEO is very cautious about AI's future — he thinks it could destroy us all.

🖱️ WaPo believes that no matter how this all shakes out, Altman has a huge place in AI history.

✈️ Airport pickups: A hassle, or a sweet gesture?

As the holidays approach, the debate over the airport pickup is hot.

✈️ The WSJ begs: Please stop expecting people to pick you up from the airport! it's inconvenient, and just contributes to traffic.

✈️ But a WaPo opinion says picking someone up is a “beautiful act of love”. What's more heartwarming than hugging someone tight at baggage claim?

✈️ And the LA Times thinks the airport pick-up is the grandest of grand gestures — one of the few actions that deserves “thank you so much” in response.

✈️ Still, HuffPo says pickups are a hotly debated topic. But many people can agree that the ethics of an airport pickup depends on the time of your flight.

Quick hits

⚫ A shooting at a Walmart near Dayton, Ohio wounded at least 4 people. (CNN)

🦠 UK PM Rishi Sunak was quoted as saying “just let people die” in response to suggestions of a second national lockdown. (Reuters)

🪙 A mayoral race in North Carolina was decided by a coin toss after the leading candidates earned the exact same number of votes. (The Guardian)

🏛️ An Italian judge sentenced 200 mafia members to a combined 2,200 years in prison. (BBC)